Show NOTHING GOT AWAY 9 I I I I I V Cuban Postal Officials Cor raled All in Sight I I PERQUISITES A BIG THING Under Four Heads Miscellaneous Building and Repairs Rent and Per Diem There Was Expended 811380879 Director General Ilnthbono Sot Up a Court Rivaling in Splendor that ot the Military I Governor of Havana and Paid for it Out of Postal Revenues New York May 2S0nco interesting and Important branch of the Cuban Investigation In-vestigation will be that relating to the perquisites enjoyed by the ofllclais and clerks employed there by virtue of their oillcial and clerical status and also that relating to miscellaneous expenditures says a Washington dispatch to the Tribune Tri-bune In the accounts of DlrcetorGoneral Rathbone for example the sum of 51733130 Is charged to per diem lhat waR the total for the year 1S99 This It appears was not expended In that year for day wages but for allowances al-lowances or nfrqulfilteH enjoyed by I himself and members of hIs oflklal and clerical staff which was a largo and vciy expensive om ieiublifl4 In those respects that ot a tJovernor ot an Indian 01 an African piovinei > lather than t that of a Governor nf a Territory like New Mexico or Oklahoma PER DIEM ALLOWANCE It Is reported that in addition to his salary of G300 a year the Director General received a per diem allowance allow-ance amounting to 5 or S1825 a ycar nnd that the hell of each of the tenor ten-or eleven of the bureaus which constituted con-stituted the department of posts received re-ceived a similar allowance at the rate of 3 a day The regular yearly salaries ranged from 2000 to 3000 OLERXS ALSO INCLUDED There was also a force of Inspectors I and clerks who received per diem allowances ranging from 125 for a 11200 clerk to 2 or more for inspectors and clerics of the higher grades There was no exercise of purMrnony In that branch of the DirectorGenerals oliicial establishment RATIIBONES COURT It Is also said that the DirectorGen oral himself enjoyed oth < r large personal per-sonal porriulsltes that the large palace occupied by him aa I a residence resi-dence in which he set up a iourt rivaling rival-ing In magnificence and splendor that of the military Governor of Havana was paid out of the postal revenues of Cuba that expensive alterations and repairs of the palace were also paid for out of the Cuban revenues QUESTIONABLE EXPENDITURES A member of the Senate committee has also been Informed that among other large Hems of expenditure charged under the head of mlscfl laneous In the DirectorGenerals account ac-count In the last year was one amounting amount-ing to 1300 for upholstering dry goods etc purchased at a single establish I ment in the United States This and many other equally expenditures ex-penditures were borne by the revenues or Cuba WAY EXPENSE1 WAS RETURNED The heading miscellaneous covered a total of IIfiHlS the heading building build-ing and repairs coveied a oral of 3591140 the heading rent covered a total of 11009 H Tim four rutals under the headings pin diem miscellaneous miscellane-ous building and repairs and rent make an aggregate of 11330870 TRANSPORTATION CHARGES Besides these there Is a charge of 3711973 for transportation distinguish ing It from mall transportation and star route service The amount I therefore was evidently not expended In payment for carrying themalIe It be added to the totals S113SOS7S the total will amount to S 12175811 To this should be added 3105 26 for carriage harness and equipment another perquisite per-quisite of the DirectorGeneral king 1 an aggregate of 12lSCr77 This was i614143 lo excels of the total expenditures on ai count of star route service mail transport I Ion letter let-ter carriers railway postal clerks mail messengers mall wagons and bail bags which amounted to only 7842231 TOTAL PER DIEM PAID The total per diem allowances alone amounted to mal than 22 per rent of that total and that in turn amounted to less than 3G per cent of the total amount paid flSj salaries to DirectorGeneral Hathbone and his oflieial and clerical kstaff at the headquarters of the Cuban postal sotvice |